Longevity
By
WHIM-WHAM
[Life seems to begin at 100, according tg the Eastern Psychological Association. After completing 20 years’ study of 450 centenarians, it is stated that persons who have reached the five score mark seem to get a second wind. Several centenarians had had failing eyesight restored and even hair colouring restored. New teeth were cut also. It is reported that most persons after their one hundredth birthday develop new interests, enthusiasms, hobbies, sense of humour and appetite.--Cable news item from New York.] "gf Sayer say that I aspire To live 100 Years or More; . I strut and fret my Hour upon Life’s little Stage, not hoping for The undeserved Felicity Of an Encore. Sane Autumn Leaves in their due ~ Season My Hair will fall, my Teeth decay, My Eyes grow dim, my Wits disperseOld Age will take its normal Way, And long before the Hundred Mark I shall be Clay. f * daeietabaaiehtnise may await The Man who greets his hundredth Spring; Youth’s Pleasures may be pale beside Post-Centenarian FrolickingMy Notion of a Life provides For no such Thing. > Seay Year 2000, 1 suppose, Fi bring the Height of human New pas 1 should not be without, More Super-Films I must not miss, Some War in which I ought to fight No less than This. UT I'll be nearly Ninety then If still alive, and not inclined To look beyond my Fin de Siécle, Or grow new Teeth, or change my Mind. Time may g0 marching on, but I Shall stay behind
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 204, 21 May 1943, Page 2
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253Longevity New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 204, 21 May 1943, Page 2
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